A single Powerball ticket wins Wednesday's $758.7 million jackpot

A single ticket sold in Massachusetts has won the $758.7 million Powerball jackpot in Wednesday's drawing, lottery officials announced early Thursday.

It was the second largest jackpot in U.S. lottery history. (The record is $1.6 billion.)

In addition to the jackpot winner, there were 31 winners of $1 million each in 19 states and six winners of $2 million each in six states.

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Here are latest winning numbers:

06-07-16-23-26, Powerball: 04, PowerPlay: 4X

Wednesday's Powerball jackpot had been listed at $700 million earlier in the day. but brisk ticket sales pushed it up another $58 million or so by the time of the drawing. The lump sum payment before taxes had been estimated at $480.5 million.

Because there was a jackpot winner, the amount resets to $40 million for the next drawing.